Guifeng tower

Guifeng tower is located on Guifeng mountain in Heyuan City, Guangdong Province, facing the intersection of Dongjiang River and Xinfeng River. It is named because it was built on Guifeng mountain. It is said that the people of Heyuan suffered from floods every year. When the immortals traveled here and saw that the people were in dire need of living, they felt compassion. So they dropped giant turtles at the confluence of Xinfeng River and Dongjiang River, turned them into Guifeng mountain, and set up Guifeng tower on it to suppress water demons. So far, the people live and work in peace. Guifeng pagoda was built in the second year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1132 AD). It is a Buddhist pagoda. It has always been listed as the first of the "eight scenic spots of the source of the river" and enjoys the reputation of "the first pagoda of Dongjiang River". It is one of the first batch of key cultural relics to be protected in Guangdong Province. The plane of Guifeng tower is hexagonal. The outer length of the first floor is 4.8m, the inner length is 1.6m, the wall thickness is 3.3m, and the height is 42.6m. The main gate of the pagoda faces east. The exterior of the pagoda is seven stories, and the interior is fourteen stories. One is bright and the other is dark. It is like bamboo. It rises step by step and gains points. Each floor is equipped with Chinese fir floor and paved with square bricks, and the dark floor has two upper and lower doors through the wall and four niches. There is a door on the exposed floor, which is connected to the platform on the other floor, and five door openings are connected to the external flat seat railings, which spiral up the stairs to reach the top floor. The flat tower belongs to the blue brick structure. The flat base and the eaves are stacked with dog tooth bricks, and the eaves are wider and thicker than other towers. The flat seat is equipped with wooden railings, and each floor has corner columns at six corners. The columns are decorated with cross frames, and the columns are connected with each other. It is a typical wooden pavilion style brick tower of Song Dynasty. The eaves of each tower are now decorated with gray glazed tiles, with water dripping from the tiles and bronze bells hanging under the corner beams. After 857 years of wind and rain erosion, the original top of Guifeng tower has been lost, the platform foundation has been buried by accumulated dust, the eaves and flat seat of the tower have collapsed, the tile surface has not been left, and the original wooden floor of each layer of the tower has been destroyed. The plane of jingguifeng tower is hexagonal, the outer side length of the first layer is 4.8 meters, the inner side length is 1.6 meters, the wall thickness is 3.3 meters, and the height is 42.6 meters. The main gate of the pagoda faces east. The exterior of the pagoda is seven stories, and the interior is fourteen stories. One is bright and the other is dark. It is like bamboo. It rises step by step and gains points. Each floor is equipped with Chinese fir floor and paved with square bricks, and the dark floor has two upper and lower doors through the wall and four niches. There is a door on the exposed floor, which is connected to the platform on the other floor, and five door openings are connected to the external flat seat railings, which spiral up the stairs to reach the top floor. The flat tower belongs to the blue brick structure. The flat base and the eaves are stacked with dog tooth bricks, and the eaves are wider and thicker than other towers. The flat seat is equipped with wooden railings, and each floor has corner columns at six corners. The columns are decorated with cross frames, and the columns are connected with each other. It is a typical wooden pavilion style brick tower of Song Dynasty. The eaves of each tower are now decorated with gray glazed tiles, with water dripping from the tiles and bronze bells hanging under the corner beams. After being eroded by the wind and rain of 857 years, the original top of Guifeng tower has been lost, the foundation of the tower has been buried by accumulated dust, the eaves and flat seat of the tower have collapsed, the tile surface has not been left, and the original wooden floors in each layer of the tower have been destroyed

Guifeng tower

Guifeng pagoda is located on Guifeng mountain by the East River of Heyuan City. It is said that the immortal felt compassion for the Heyuan people who had been harmed by the water all the year round. He put a big turtle in the place where the Xinfeng River and Dongjiang River meet to turn it into a hillock, and then built a tower to suppress the water demon. Therefore, the mountain is called Guifeng mountain, and the tower is called Guifeng tower. Built in 1132 A.D. in Shaoxing, Southern Song Dynasty, it is a pavilion style brick tower in the early Southern Song Dynasty, which can be dated in the Gregorian calendar of Guangdong Province.

In 1962, it was listed as the first batch of key cultural relics protection units in Guangdong Province. The plane of Guifeng tower is hexagonal, the outer length of the first floor is 4.8m, the inner length is 1.6m, the wall thickness is 3.3m, and the tower height is 42.6m. The main gate of the pagoda faces east. It has seven stories on the outside and fourteen stories on the inside. One is bright and the other is dark. It is like bamboo, rising steadily.

brief introduction

Guifeng pagoda is located on Guifeng mountain, Nandi Road, Yuancheng District, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province, facing the intersection of Dongjiang River and Xinfengjiang River. It is named because it was built on Guifeng mountain. It is said that the people of Heyuan suffered from floods every year. When the immortals traveled here and saw that the people were in dire need of living, they felt compassion. So they dropped giant turtles at the confluence of Xinfeng River and Dongjiang River, turned them into Guifeng mountain, and set up Guifeng tower on it to suppress water demons. So far, the people live and work in peace.

Guifeng tower was built in the second year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1132 A.D.), which has always been listed as the first of the "eight scenic spots at the source of the river". It also enjoys the reputation of "the first tower of Dongjiang River" and is widely used

It is one of the first batch of key cultural relics to be protected in the eastern province. The plane of Guifeng tower is hexagonal. The outer length of the first floor is 4.8m, the inner length is 1.6m, the wall thickness is 3.3m, and the height is 42.6m. The main gate of the pagoda faces east. The exterior of the pagoda is seven stories, and the interior is fourteen stories. One is bright and the other is dark. It is like bamboo. It rises step by step and gains points. Each floor is equipped with Chinese fir floor and paved with square bricks, and the dark floor has two upper and lower doors through the wall and four niches. There is a door on the exposed floor, which is connected to the platform on the other floor, and five door openings are connected to the external flat seat railings, which spiral up the stairs to reach the top floor. The flat tower belongs to the blue brick structure. The flat base and the eaves are stacked with dog tooth bricks, and the eaves are wider and thicker than other towers. The flat seat is equipped with wooden railings, and each floor has corner columns at six corners. The columns are decorated with cross frames, and the columns are connected with each other. It is a typical wooden pavilion style brick tower of Song Dynasty. The eaves of each tower are now decorated with gray glazed tiles, with water dripping from the tiles and bronze bells hanging under the corner beams. After being eroded by wind and rain in 857, the original top of Guifeng tower has been lost, the platform foundation has been buried by accumulated dust, the eaves and flat seat of the tower have collapsed, the tile surface has not been left, and the original wooden floors in each layer of the tower have been completely destroyed.

Guifeng tower has seven stories in appearance and fourteen stories in interior, which is a brick imitation Pavilion tower. The bottom of the tower is 5 meters long and hollow. The wall thickness of the bottom of the tower is 3 meters. There are through wall bricks that go straight up to the floor of each floor. Around the outer flat seat of the tower, the tower can go up to the top level step by step. Before restoration, the top of the tower was destroyed, with a residual height of 32 meters. Before the restoration, the body of Guifeng tower was basically in good condition without inclination and cracks. The original tower is built with yellow mud mortar. There are two kinds of bricks, green and red, with different sizes and more than 30 specifications. The top platform of the tower has been buried by accumulated soil, and there are two big leaf Ficus in the northeast corner. Based on the analysis of the beam holes of the first floor tower and the excavation of the tower foundation, it is proved that there should be secondary steps, that is, there are about 3 meters of wood beam and bucket arch tile surface at the six corners of the first floor. Each layer of the tower is decreasing, and there are cornices and flat seats on each layer. Due to years of disrepair, many of the eaves and flat seats before restoration have collapsed, especially in the southeast corner of the second floor. There are no weeds and Ficus Ficus on the tile surface of each floor, and the original wooden floor in the inner cavity of the tower has been destroyed.

repair

After the Heyuan City was built in 1989, with the support of relevant provincial departments, the Guifeng tower was approved for restoration. The principles of "repairing and restoring the old" and "not changing the original appearance of cultural relics" shall be strictly observed in the restoration works. There is a folk legend that "Heyuan tower has no top", but according to the research of relevant experts, the original top of Guifeng tower was only caused by "Renzi in the second year of Xianfeng, the first level of collapse of Guifeng tower" (see "Heyuan county annals"). The first level of collapse recorded in the county annals is the original top of the tower. And before the restoration, a large beam was found on the sixth floor of the tower cavity, which was the physical witness used to support the top of the tower. From the analysis of the Liang Fang holes on the outside of the first floor of the tower and the foundation stones unearthed around the tower foundation, it can be confirmed that the original secondary steps of the tower exist, that is, the eaves of the four meter wooden beam tower protruding from the six corners of the first floor, commonly known as the "Tower Skirt", which was restored according to the Song Dynasty style. In the process of maintenance and restoration, several chronological bricks were successively found. One of them is engraved with "brick of November 29, Renzi, Shaoxing second year"; the other is engraved with "Wanli 30th year repair". These two inscriptions not only solve the eternal mystery of the actual time when the tower was first built, but also confirm the historical fact that it was rebuilt once during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. The restored Guifeng tower is more majestic and magnificent. Climbing the tower, you can have a panoramic view of the old and new urban areas. It has been opened as a tourist area, attracting a large number of Chinese and foreign tourists.

protect

In view of its long history and typical tower style, Guifeng tower is a famous historic site in Dongjiang River, which has good historical, artistic and scientific value. The rebuilding of Guifeng pagoda is of great historical and practical significance to the protection of cultural relics, the development of tourism and the enrichment of people's cultural life. On May 25, 2006, as an ancient building of Song Dynasty, Guifeng tower was approved by the State Council to be listed in the Sixth Batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

Ticket information

Upper Guifeng tower ticket price: 5 yuan per person

Free access to the park

Main attractions

Guifeng tower is known as "China's Green Pearl City". Heyuan tourism resources are very rich. There are many Heyuan water resources, forest resources, cultural landscape and natural landscape. Tuocheng, Xinglong folk village, Heyuan Museum, Longfeng temple and so on are all famous cultural landscapes; natural landscapes include Wanlv lake, Huangniushi Forest Park, Niuzhi mountain and so on. There are also "old eight sceneries" and "new eight sceneries".

Address: guifengshan, Yuancheng District, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province

Longitude: 114.70147233178

Latitude: 23.726408410806

Tour time: 2 hours

Ticket information: 5 yuan

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